So I finally got my hands on the official Melancholy of Haruhi DVDs so now I can remake my original AMV without subtitles in the way. Maybe it will open things up for maybe a whole new AMV somewhere down the line. For now though, I just wanted to experiment with the idea of overlaying the DVD quality video over the old fansubbed version.

Good ol’ Premiere took some time to figure all over again. This time around I was using Premiere CS3, which is rather different than 6.0 that I originally used for this AMV. For some reason, this new Premiere put in these two black bars on both sides of the video, which took another day just to get rid of. It didn’t help that I was working on this in hot weather, while under the weather or under attack by allergens, and with a headache for hours already.

So with a few extra added scenes, slightly better cuts, and multiple file conversions between raw uncompressed video to an acceptable MP4/FLV version, it’s finally complete. Unfortunately, there were some converting issues and it’s not exactly the best thing possible, but I just don’t have enough time to sit around to fix them, if I could even do such a thing.

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Yes, yes, it’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been in the works for the last 2 weeks of transferring from one web host to another. The transfer was finally complete sometime a few days ago on Wednesday, and I haven’t had much of a chance to talk about it until now.

To avoid my site from getting compromised, I won’t talk about my previous or current hosts, but let’s just say I’m in a better place now, although it’s costing me a few more pennies per month. I might be able to offset that with some AdSense. Too bad I won’t get paid until I reach at least $100.00 in revenue. Who knows how much I’ll get from that. Maybe that’s just incentive for me to post more on the site to increase page rank, visitors, and such.

Anyway, the new host provides better page loading because their servers are a little closer to home, so to speak. And with this new host, I present to you a new page design. I’ve been trying to find a new page design, and this one has worked out very nicely for me.